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3. Initiative v Guilt

through this period. The significance of parental
reaction is not limited to bottoms and pooh - it
concerns all aspects of toddler exploration and
discovery while small children struggle to find
their feet - almost literally - as little people in
their own right. The 'terrible twos' and 'toddler
tantrums' are a couple of obvious analogies
which represent these internal struggles and
parental battles. The parental balancing act is a
challenging one, especially since parents
themselves are having to deal with their own
particular psychosocial crisis, and of course deal
with the influence of their own emotional
triggers which were conditioned when they
themselves passed through earlier formative
crisis stages. What are the odds that whenever a
parent berates a child, "That's dirty.." it will be
an echo from their own past experience at this
very stage?

Initiative is the capability to devise actions or
projects, and a confidence and belief that it is
'To make (= going
okay to do so, even with a risk of failure or
after)'
making mistakes. Guilt means what it says, and
in this context is the feeling that it is wrong or
'To "make like" (=
inappropriate to instigate something of one's
playing)'
own design. Guilt results from being
admonished or believing that something is
(To make and
wrong or likely to attract disapproval. Initiative
complete things,
flourishes when adventure and game-playing is
and to make things encouraged, irrespective of how daft and silly it
together. To pursue seems to the grown-up in charge. Suppressing
ideas, plans)
adventure and experimentation, or preventing

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